Mary Lyn Ray

Wilma decides to plant Christmas trees with the help of her young neighbor, Parker.

While a boy in North America urges his father not to cut down the trees where the wood thrush lives, a boy in South America awaits the return of the bird that he calls "la flauta" for its flute-like song.

A child describes all the things there are to do on a rainy day.

After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.

Anna learns to play the piano and continues to play all her life.

Having come to live among the Shakers at the age of six, Caleb spends the rest of his life learning their songs and their ways.

Arvilla has never been able to see the ocean, because of having to care for their farm animals, until she gets an idea for a "voiture" which will enable them all to travel to the Pacific.

A child describes all the wonderful things there are to enjoy in the gravel pit across the road.

A girl who is in a woodland clearing to practice dancing spies a deer and observes how it leaps and turns.

When Jim and Charlie overhear two of their teachers talking in a secret language and the two friends set out to solve the mystery, they do not expect the dire consequences of their actions.

It is a lucky author who has a dog to greet her in the morning and help her with ideas, because everything is better with a dog--but a dog who has an author is also lucky.

For one restless pup the waking world is too full of wonder to leave behind at bedtime, until he closes his eyes and finds comfort in his dreams. Mary Lyn Ray's warm and accessible picture book celebrates the sights and sounds of the night to reassure young children at bedtime.

The Thank You Book explores the many ways we can be thankful for the pleasures great and small that await us every day.

Explores the wonder of stars, whether they are in the night sky, on a plant as a promise of fruit to come, or in one's pocket for those days when one does not feel shiny.

Cinema's glamor has always been inseparable from star performances and star images. Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, and advertising, as well as critical texts, Richard Dyer analyzes the historical, ideological, and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand screen icons. He pays particular attention to Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Fonda, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford, and John Wayne.

The sled takes the inquisitive pair to an old train -- one that's heading for Craigellachie, British Columbia, where the last spike will be driven into the rails to celebrate the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Will Emily and Matt make it in time for that historic occasion? Will they help reunite their new friend with his ailing father, a railroad worker?